Welcome to our virtual tour of Woodhorn Museum!
Explore our museum from the comfort of your home or classroom. This tour has been designed with emphasis on the science, engineering and technology around mining. You can take a look around our buildings and get exclusive access to some of the spaces not normally open to visitors!
Click the welcome video to start.
Mining memoribilia - a history of safety lamps
North East Film Archive: Dawdon Colliery in 1967.
Jowl, Jowl and listen - a film about local miners
BBC class clip of Mac Williams about working in the mines and being a black miner
Black lung disease
English Folk and Dance Society: Coal Mining Folk
Northumberland Folk Miners Picnic Playlist by Jonny Hannah
Largo from Symphony Number 9 by Antonin Dvořák played by Ashington Brass Band
Digitised copy of the 1812 book Rhymes of Northern Bards. Footy against the wall can be found on page 106
Womens football supports the miners in the 1920's
Narbi Price - work inspired by the Pitmen Painters
An ITV documentary on the Pitmen Painters
Valerie Ganz - a Swansea artist inspired by mining
Huntingdon Beaumont Bedlington Waggonway
